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Mid North Coast · Accidents

Accidents, 1933

263 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 10 of 14

Lorry Smash 21 Persons Injured. Man's Painful Journey

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 6 September 1933 · page 1

The City of Sydney, one of the largo aeroplanes owned by the New England Airways, was flown to Coffs Harbour on Sunday, and brought back to…

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Car Accidents. Car Overturns

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 6 September 1933 · page 4

Mr. and Mrs. Les Mitchell, who were only recently married (says "Macleay Argus.") met with a serious motoring mishap from which the…

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Motor-bus Fatality Tragic End to Picnic

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 8 September 1933 · page 2

With a broken neck as the result of a tragic bus smash on the Lower Clarence River on Saturday afternoon, Russell Napper, aged 22, was…

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Fell From Train Fatality at Stanmore. Sydney

The Northern Champion · Saturday 9 September 1933 · page 4

Mrs. Mona Hunt (24) died this morning from injuries sustained when she fell from a train near Stanmore railway station late last night. A letter found…

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Car Accident

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 12 September 1933 · page 2

Mr. speros Landis, while returning from Taree on Sunday in a baby Austin car, hit the bank about nine miles from Gloucester and capsized…

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Sulky Accident

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 12 September 1933 · page 2

This morning a pony attached to a sulky belonging to Mr. Lindsay Atkins became frightened while standing in front of the post office,…

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Man Drowned. Brave Rescue Attempt

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 13 September 1933 · page 2

While fishing of the rocks at Wilsons' Headland, Wooli a seaside resort 20-miles, from Ulmarra on Sunday afternoon, Ernest, Hammond…

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Tragic Motor Accident. School Teachers Involved. One Dead — Other Injured

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 15 September 1933 · page 5

Due to the failure of the steering gear, the car in which were Miss Hope Lyons (26). of Sully Street, Randwick, and Miss Eileen O'Brien…

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Fatal Shooting Accident. Sydney

Macleay Argus · Friday 15 September 1933 · page 5

Gordon William George Matchett, aged 22, a member of one of the best known grazing families in the Central West, was found dead at Cooma with…

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Pea Rifle Fatality Sydney

The Northern Champion · Saturday 16 September 1933 · page 4

Gordon William George Matchett, 22, member of one of the best known grazing families in the Central West, was found dead at Ooma with a bullet…

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Harbour Collision Between Ferry and Freighter Sydney

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 20 September 1933 · page 2

Stockholm: Sixty were injured when the ferry boat "Maimee" rammed and sank the Norweigan freighter "Alix."…

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Farmer Gored. Attacked by Bull. Critically Injured. Brother Answers Cries for Help. Sydney

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 22 September 1933 · page 1

Cornered and gored by a bull on his property at Sylvania, in the Sutherland district, to-day, Harry Fanways, a middle-aged farmer, was critically…

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First Cigarette Accidental Invention

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 22 September 1933 · page 6

Precisely a hundred years ago, says the "Sunday Express," an Egyptian soldier, fighting against the Turks, was longing for a smoke…

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First Cigarette Accidental Invention Soldier and Lost Pipe

The Northern Champion · Saturday 23 September 1933 · page 8

Precisely a hundred yours ago, says the "Sunday Express," an, Egyptian soldier, lighting against the Turks, was longing for a smoke. He had lost his…

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Serious Car Accident at Wauchope

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 27 September 1933 · page 2

On Sunday, afternoon a serious car accident occurred at Wauchope, when two cars came into colliston at the Intersection of Cameron and High…

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Child Drowned

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 29 September 1933 · page 2

On Monday last Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Ballengarry were visiting some relatives at the reserve near the new football ground at Nambucca…

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Injured at Sea

Macleay Argus · Friday 29 September 1933 · page 4

On Thursday afternoon the steamer Nambucca ran into the gale while coming, to the Macleay and experienced a rather trying time. Mr…

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Slip of the Pen Bishop Selwyn's Diocese. Enlarged by Accident. the Call of Melanesia

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 29 September 1933 · page 3

The oft-mentioned story of a slip of a pen by a Crown official, which resulted in a bishop's diocese being enlarged by 46 degrees of latitude,…

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Religious Bathers Drowned. Calcutta, 21033

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 3 October 1933 · page 5

Thirteen out of a party of 31 religious bathers were drowned in the flooded Courtallum Waterfalls in South India…

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Caddie Injured at Bellingen

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 3 October 1933 · page 5

During the course of a golf competition at Bellingen, a caddie, Jack Tait, was struck on the back of the head by a ball and dropped to the…

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